The phrase "a broad division" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing categories or classifications that are general or wide-ranging rather than specific or detailed.
Example: "In the study of ecosystems, we can make a broad division between terrestrial and aquatic environments."
Alternatives: "a wide classification" or "a general categorization".
Early texts show a broad division between the speech of northern Gaul, which had suffered most from the invasions, and that in the more stable, cultured south, where the Latin spoken was less subject to change.
A broad division between identity theories can be drawn between type identity theories and token identity theories.
These show a broad division between reason and an inferior part of the soul; it is compatible with a further distinction between two inferior parts, spirit and appetite.
The unsupervised hierarchical cluster analysis of breast carcinoma has led to a broad division into ER+ and ER− cases [18,19].
Our findings, along with other evidence (Brugger et al., 2000; Patterson et al., 2008), point to a broad division of the Golgi cisternae into two functionally distinct domains: the centers and the rims.
On the one hand the WRB is intended to be a reference system for users interested in a broad division of soils, at the highest level of generalisation and explained in non-technical terms.
Their role, Slezkine argues, was part of a broader division of human labor between what he calls Mercurians-entrepreneurial minorities--and Apollonians--food-producing majorities.
While their resumes look alike, their ideological differences map neatly onto a broader division within the Democratic Party.
But far from unifying Spaniards, the decision to unearth Franco's remains has polarized the nation, a reaction that underscores a broader division in Spanish society about how to interpret the civil war and Franco's 40-year reign.
Top down and bottom up approaches are two broad division of production of nanoscale materials in general.
The Kraepelinian dichotomy – the broad division of major mood and psychotic illness of adulthood into schizophrenia and 'manic depressive' (bipolar) illness – has been enshrined in Western psychiatry for over a century and continues to influence clinical practice, research and public perceptions of mental illness.
